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November 2005
Lowered Expectations
Wednesday, 30 November 2005 7:47 A GMT-05
YBP Library Services: You get what you pay for.
Biting the tail that wags you
Tuesday, 29 November 2005 7:41 A GMT-05
You'd think a nation hit with the worst hurricane season in years, along with the unexpected floods in the Northeast and the rampage of tornadoes in the west, which has acknowledged the lack of snow in its nether regions is causing big problems and k
Dish Runs Away
Monday, 28 November 2005 7:44 A GMT-05
About a week ago, Lionel and I finally switched chores. Now the dishes are his and the laundry is mine. We switched because we'd both gotten bored with the tasks at hand. Life is really hard when there is no clean underwear and no clean s
Little Tiny Holes
Friday, 25 November 2005 7:16 P GMT-05
We know intellectually that we live in an old leaky house which regularly exchanges inside air for outside air. This is actually a nice feature to have in the warmer months, since breathing fresh air is one of the only rational reasons to live.
Happy Thanksgiving
Thursday, 24 November 2005 9:38 A GMT-05
Maybe the goings on of the world automatically slow down whenever the U.S. has one of its major holidays. But I doubt it. For instance, this is headline news, or it would be if it happened to us. Instead of actual news, though, the news media h
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Ending the week in the middle
Wednesday, 23 November 2005 7:48 A GMT-05
Ah! The Wednesday of a beautifully short Thanksgiving week. Unless you're one of the suckers my place of employment has fooled into working on Friday (a holiday). But for the rest of us, four whole days off without worrying about getting up an
Old Navy Victoria's Secret LLBean Wannabe
Tuesday, 22 November 2005 9:45 P GMT-05
Recently I've been getting hits from a site called Umbria.
No News is...
Tuesday, 22 November 2005 7:41 A GMT-05
Rain, threatening to turn to sleet and snow, and a flood watch to go with it. Apparently the rivers still haven't recovered from their massive influx a month ago. We spent a portion of last night, in the dark, covering our hard earned wood piles.
Wood is Good
Monday, 21 November 2005 7:45 A GMT-05
Perhaps the only downside, if you can even call it a downside, to burning wood instead of oil as your primary heat source is that you have to get some wood. You can choose to do this several ways. You can go the relatively easy route and by 10 co
The Enemy is Us
Friday, 18 November 2005 8:33 P GMT-05
A neighbor of mine recently sent me this in an email, although, in the manner of all chain mail hoaxes it had gotten a lot longer and considerably more convoluted and circular by the time it got to me.Coincidentally enough, this email began circulat
Top Dog
Friday, 18 November 2005 7:28 A GMT-05
Gump, apparently unhappy with something I'd typed up the other day, carefully removed from my keyboard the following offensive items: Shift, Z, Q, 8, Insert and Pause. I guess I should be happy that he didn't knock the whole thing down onto the flo
Nothing like a midnight phone call...
Thursday, 17 November 2005 7:41 A GMT-05
...to mess up the rest of your night.The phone call itself was nothing special. Just Laura, again, this time claiming to have dialed our number by accident. Twice. Yeah, right. This is just another ploy to get attention, and I am fed up this ti
Something wrong with the picture
Wednesday, 16 November 2005 7:50 A GMT-05
Samuel Alito backs away from a 1985 memo to President Reagan which specifically outlines his judicial beliefs. Even conservative groups who specifically wanted an anti-abortion judge in the balance specifically to overturn Roe V. Wade are backing a
Arlington National Cemetery
Tuesday, 15 November 2005 7:37 A GMT-05
My paternal grandfather was a Lt. in the Navy, apparently serving in some capacity in World War II although I really don't know the details. I also know that he served as an attache for the government to Russia at the very height of the Cold War. M
More Dilbert Evidence
Friday, 11 November 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
YBP Library Servies: A Dilbert Enterprise
Moral but not Honest?
Friday, 11 November 2005 7:26 A GMT-05
According to the latest poll, a majority of Americans have suddenly woken up from their slumber and noticed that Bush is not honest. Bush himself has woken up to reality slightly and ordered his staff, if not himself, to attend ethics classes. Ha
Fueling our Lives
Thursday, 10 November 2005 7:45 A GMT-05
"Fuel Alternatives Can Cut Gas Costs"No kidding?Of course neither alternative mentioned here is viable for us. An electric car capable of going 40 to 50 miles would maybe get us all the way to work, if we didn't make any stops or detours
Intelligence in Design
Wednesday, 9 November 2005 7:40 A GMT-05
Lionel has been listening to the Ancestor's Tale on audiotape for the last few days. He's gotten to the part where we all evolved from a common amoeba ancestor, and the toxic mixture in which life formed in the first place. Amazingly, my high sch
What do you do when your supervisor disappears?
Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
When you get fed up with working at YBP....
Leaky as a Plum
Tuesday, 8 November 2005 7:45 A GMT-05
A few days ago, amidst other craziness, I opened the dishwasher to discover that 1) it had not properly washed the dishes and 2) the reason seemed to be that it had not properly drained. The dirty, food color water at the bottom spelled clogged dra
Category: Wannabes
Read Label Carefully
Monday, 7 November 2005 7:33 A GMT-05
This weekend I was summarily labeled a pilot and an archaeologist.We traveled down to Cape Cod this weekend to visit family that I have technically met before, but for various childhood reasons have no recollection of such meeting whatsoever. It wa
The Ruggles Family: Falling Like Flies
Friday, 4 November 2005 7:36 A GMT-05
Death and taxes; the only real certainties in life. My family was never very large, and it's getting smaller and smaller.My grandmother, Alice, died many years before I was born, of a heart attack. It was either very sudden and no one expected it,
A Bird Can be another type of Terrorist
Thursday, 3 November 2005 7:41 A GMT-05
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/03/MNGU4FI3001.DTLIronically the Bush Administration's flu pandemic containment plan actually makes quite a bit of sense. You don't fool around with something that could kill everyone in l
Sun, Time, etc....
Wednesday, 2 November 2005 7:38 A GMT-05
The sun is still shining, can you believe it? Luckily I've been stubborn enough not to pull the battery on the bike, hoping that someday soon just such days would happen. The last two days have been downright beautiful but I've been on other miss
Bring it on
Tuesday, 1 November 2005 7:59 A GMT-05
Showing either stupidity or strength in the face of controversy, Dick Cheney refused calls for a shake up and fresh faces in his staff and instead appointed two people who had been named already in the Libby indictment. This is an interesting move